Hybrid Senior Gameplay Programmer

at Sandbox VR

• Job title: Senior Gameplay Programmer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: CA$103,903 - CA$134,436 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Unity
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Vancouver, Canada

About the role

• Senior Gameplay Programmer developing immersive multiplayer VR experiences using Unity for Sandbox VR. Collaborating with designers and artists to create engaging gameplay systems.

Responsibilities

• Work to implement game mechanics and AI behaviors for our compelling 6-person multiplayer experiences & provide mentorship to other programmers
• Consistently push the limits of the Unity game engine to maximize the quality of each VR experience.
• Keep up with the latest features and optimization techniques and decide if, when, and how to incorporate them.
• Find or develop tools and processes to make the development process more efficient.
• Actively contribute to creative maintainable code that can be reused across experiences.
• Own key areas of the experience from technical perspective
• Experiment with game design and use rapid prototyping to develop features, all while ensuring that strong architectural and algorithmic decisions are made.
• Work closely with art and design to create and iterate on gameplay features.
• Fix bugs in existing gameplay systems as required.
• Contribute ideas toward all aspects of the VR experience’s production and development processes. Write robust, maintainable code.

Requirements

• You've been a software or feature group team lead and can share your philosophy of leadership as well as specific examples of where you've put that philosophy into action.
• Exceptional C# programming skills with at least 5 years of software programming experience.
• You must also have significant experience in programming with the Unity engine.
• You have a proven track record, have shipped at least 2 commercial games (PC or Console preferred) and have been involved in each step of the development process from concept stage all the way through to the final release.
• You can share awesome stories of your incredible successes or crushing failures and what you learned from each experience.
• You play video games very frequently and have a strong understanding of current gaming trends and popular games releases.
• It’s a big plus for us if you have your own VR headset and regularly play VR games.

Benefits

• Significant equity grants in a rapidly growing organization
• Private medical benefits
• Hybrid work model (3 days a week onsite)
• Retirement plan